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Union government has yet again given its critic a chance to dub it the patron of corrupt and criminals. When there is a clamor in the country to make our polity and political process free from criminals, it has decided to promulgate an Ordinance, which negates a July 10 judgment of the Supreme Court to debar a convicted lawmaker from contesting election and allowing his membership of the legislative body to end automatically after conviction.

New Delhi: The Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is likely to discuss bilateral cooperation in defence sector with the US President Barack H Obama when he is scheduled to meet him on September 27.

The Bharatiya Janata Party has committed a historic blunder by allowing the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh—a secretive, conspiratorial, unelected body with a deeply sectarian anti-democratic agenda—to dictate the choice of its prime ministerial candidate for the next election. It’s no surprise that the candidate is India’s vilest and most hated political figure, who has blood on his hands, pure aggression in his veins, and a slavishly pro-corporate agenda in his heart.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to leave New Delhi on September 25 morning on a four-day visit of the United States to attend a summit meeting with US President Barack Obama in Washington DC and thereafter address the 68th session of the United Nations general assembly in New York. Dr. Singh will return to the Indian capital on October 1.

New Delhi: The convening of the sixteenth meeting of the National Integration Council (NIC) was just a cosmetic affair of the Government with a show to heal the wounds of the riot victims of Muzaffarnagar and its neighbourhood in Uttar Pradesh.

The situation in Jammu and Kashmir is taking a worrisome turn. Both external and internal factors lend credence to the conclusion.

In his first monetary policy review on September 20, Reserve Bank of India Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan has performed a balancing act, easing a little on the “exceptional measures” of July, which had tightened liquidity to dampen volatile currency movements, while raising the key policy rate, repo, by 25 basis points to 7.5 per cent, to bring down inflation to more tolerable levels. This rate hike is for the first time in two years.

LUCKNOW: The recent Muzaffarnagar riots have damaged the credibility and ability of the young UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav in particular and entire state administration in general.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The transfer of the solar scam cases to new judges, in the wake of reallocation by the Kerala High Court of subjects handled by various judges, has caused eyebrows to be raised all round.

KOLKATA: The Bangladesh Supreme Court has handed down death sentence to Abdul Qader Mollah, assistant secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami but better known as the ‘Butcher of Mirpur’ for his killing of innocent men, women and children during the liberation war in Bangladesh. Mollah had, earlier this year, been sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Crimes Tribunal.